Account and sales book



No. 62|,387. Patented Mar. 2|, i899. E. L. G. TOBRG.

ACEDUNT AND SALES BOOK.

(Application alsa Mar. s, 139s.) (No Model.)

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'UNrrn STATES EMIL LAURITZ GOTTLIEB TOBORG, OF LITTLE FALLS, NEV YORK.

ACCOUNT AND SALES BOOK.

SPECIFICATION 'forming part 0f Letters Patent No.4 621,387, dated March 21, 1899.

Application filed March 8,1898.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known ,thatL EMIL LAURITZ GOTTLIEB TOBORG, a citizen of the United States, re-. siding at -Little Falls, in the county of Herkimer and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Account and Sales Books, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to account and sales books; and it consists, essentially, in a book composed of alternate original and duplicate sheets bound together at one of their long sides, the duplicate sheets being made wider than the original sheets and provided on their projecting faces with a series of columns adapted for credit entries of separate accounts, lan unbound carbon-sheet of the same width as that of the original sheets being used for producing copies on the duplicate sheets. i

The object of the invention is to'produce a combined bill-book and journal, and thus provide a simple method of keeping accounts.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents an open book provided with my improvement, showing the face of one original sheet, the unbound carbon-sheet underneath the original sheet, and the projecting face of the duplicate sheet, entries having been made ontlie upper section of the original sheet and also in the exposed columns on the duplicate sheet. Fig. 2 shows the face of a duplicate sheet.

Similar letters refer to correspon ding parts throughout both views.

A represents the front cover, A the rear cover, and A2 the back of the book.

B represents the face of one of the original sheets, each of which is composed of two ruled and consecutively numbered billhlanks adapted to receive original debit entries. The two bill-blanks are separable from eachother by an intermediate line 0f perforations B and respectively removable from the book bya vertical row of perforations B2, situated adjacent to the inner edge of the original sheet, the two bill-blanks leaving, when detached, a narrow strip or stub B3 in the back of the book.

O represents one of the duplicate sheets, all of which are made wider than the original sheets and provided on their projecting faces lSerial No. 673,082. (No model.)

exposed credit-columns may be used for indicating quantity of articles entered on the' original sheet, in which case the book would be a combined bill and stock book, or by making the duplicate sheets wider an additional series of columns may be introduced for indicating quantity, thus making the book a combined bill, journal, and stock book.

In using the book the debit entries are made on the original bill-blanks and the credit entries recorded in their respective columns on the exposed portion of the duplicate sheet, the debit entries being copied on the duplicate sheet by the intermediate carbon-paper.

W'hen the entries are completed,the original bill-blanks are detached from the book, leav ing duplicate debit entries and original credit entries on the face of the duplicate sheet, which remains in the book.

I do not desire to limit myself to the par- I claim as new, and desire to secu re by Letters Patent, is-

l. An account and sales book composed of alternate original and duplicate sheets bound together at one of their long sides, each original sheet consisting of two ruled and consecutively-numbered bill-blanks separable from each other by an intermediate line of perforatio ns and respectively removable'from the book by a vertical line of perforations situated adjacent to the inner edge of said sheet, the duplicate sheets being wider than the original sheets and permanently secured in the book, said duplicate sheets being provided on their projecting faces with a series of vertical columns adapted for credit entries of separate accounts, an unbound sheet of carbon-paper of about the same width as that IOO for entries of separate accounts, all in conibnation with a carbon-sheet interposed between the original and duplicate sheets and adapted to produce copies lon the duplicate sheet of entries made 0n the original sheet, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

EMIL LAURITZ GOT'llillll 'l'OllORt lVitnesses:

A. MARSCHALL, C. J. LUNDs'rRoM. 

